For upstream circuits, we dont upgrade based on a ratio of mbps sold. We upgrade based on utilizaton. we never want to hit over 80%.
On Oct 2, 2016 12:38 AM, "That One Guy /sarcasm" <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> wrote: > so, we hit a wall this week with lopsided providers. we hit an approximate > 20:1 and choked. with some policy routing we took it to about a 14:1 ratio > and got things buffered. this is upstream, i still am comfortable with > 12-15:1 on the ap/cpe side. > > At what ratio do you decide to buy more provider bandwidth? rule of thumb, > because we are all different. With our size, we could probably still afford > a 1:1 on the upstream, but we would be wasting a shit ton of cash. > > Powercode sucks ass for reporting, so its a manual process to see what > your ratio is, even though they could pop out report very easily, and I > assume query guys already are because Powercode makes it too hard. > > > I am concerned with my personal accountability on this however. Im > normally pretty anal about monitoring for points of failure, and I > completely dropped the ball on this, relegating some customer complaints to > the "quit whining you little bitch" bin, assuming it wa a customer end > issue when I should have realized we had sold too much and put it out the > small pipe. Any advice (aside from maintaining a 1:1) for metrics to > monitor that indicate you oversubscribe? > > > > -- > If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team > as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. >
